Erratum to: Environ Earth Sci (2015) 73:435–447 DOI 10.1007/s12665-014-3565-2

The authors would like to correct the errors in the original publication as below.

The fifth author’s name was incorrectly typed as “Kun Kia” instead of “Kun Jia”. The fifth author’s name should read as “Kun Jia”.

The correct version of the authors’ affiliations is given below:

Lei Zhang1 · Bingfang Wu1 · Kai Yin1* · Xiaosong Li1 · Kun Jia2 · Liang Zhu1

1. Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 9718, Beijing 100101, China. *Corresponding author: Tel.: +86 10 64842376, E-mail: yinkai@radi.ac.cn

2. College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China